Population Growth – You want a market in which the population growth is steady and ideally increasing.

I prefer to DELEGATE this task.

I'm at the point where I am running every which way and seem to be losing more of my time to grow the business to small menial issues that someone else could be doing.

If you look at the housing trends from the past four years 89031 was one of the best growth.

Great developing area, good for growth.

What you likely really want are equity growth and cashflow2) Work backwards from the 'big' goal and understand what you have to do to get there e.g. buy x units that cashflow $y per month3) Set some interim goals to give yourself small wins.

I've been habitually absorbing information on real estate investing for almost a year now; I listen to Bigger Pockets, Active Duty Passive Income, Rod Khleif, audiobooks, and have read several books to gain some insight on how to make deals work.After extensive research into population growth, unemployment rates, median home prices, crime rates, property and income taxes, average insurance rates, vacancy rates, and average rental income, I have narrowed down my search to the Jacksonville, FL area where I will seek out my first multi-family deal in 2020.I'm excited to join these forums and become more active, there's always so much to learn from this great network of people.

I don't currently have a virtual assistant and really they seem to be used to do more administrative tasks but the podcast often talk about them also being able to take calls at all hours (some of them are in other countries where labor is cheaper). 

At some point with rent growth that would reduce, but might take around 7 years to reach that point at 3% rent growth.Is there anyway to better justify a purchase like this? 

The author does not factor in either the anticipated, or even recent job growth, or the impact of the sales price that will need to paid to purchase a home now occupied by a Boomer.